pickA reimagining of Margaret Fuller‘s life-with Margaret Fuller as narrator of her own story.Although her life was cut short,she experienced it to its fullest via her own violation.Her narration enabled me to get swept up in her inner thoughts,observations,& desires.Like many women,her “herstory” was sidelined by the eminent men in her sphere.The exception was NY newspaper publisher H. Greeley.He was able to truly “see” her,& encourage her quests.
Started this tonight. Only 40 pages in but I totally understand why the book received so many accolades. #Naturalitsy
#HyggeHourReadathon
Some poetry, some forensic anthropology mystery, some cinnamon milk & almond thins. Relaxing into Monday. Sleep well my friends. 😴
Lucas, ex-M16, had been reflecting on WWI & the 19 yr old grandson he lost. It was 1933 & the specter of another war loomed… the cherty tree & Housman‘s poem reminded me of our magnolia tree & how we observe its seasons.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44411/a-shropshire-lad-2-loveliest-of-tre...
Hannah has made her first escape from Germany to Paris. She heard news of Heidegger, with who she was romantically linked from 1924-8. In this graphic novel, she asks herself why is he saying these things; she is truly at a loss at his embracing of Nazism.
Catching up on this delightful #sundaybuddyread before I join in the discussion. After a week of rain, I can finally relax on my porch. #porchlife
I forgot to post my #WeeklyFavorites for April.
~The Lioness of Boston (Isabella Gardiner)
~Witness
~Jane Kenyon‘s Collected Poems
~Watching the Perseids
~ The Man in the Brown Suit
This is my adult Autistic son.He knows R.F. Kennedy Jr.‘s appalling,abhorrent views on Autistic people. My husband‘s shared this beautiful letter
from the mother of an Autistic daughter.She says what i cannot put into words-my son is a gift, one that has set my life path on an unexpected trajectory, & I am all the ricer for it.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-robert-f-kennedy-jr-who-th...
#9: a dead body in an alleyway,a white power organization, & greed run rampant.A multilayered plot for DCI banks to unwind.
#10: a drought has caused the waters of a reservoir to recede. Yorkshire village from times past, is revealed. A female skeleton is uncovered.DCI Banks‘ challenge is to discover who viciously murdered this woman over half a century ago.Dead witnesses witnesses still alive, but hesitant to become involved make for a ⬇️
#5JoysFriday
1) Opening season soccer game-we won ! #hartfordcityfootballclub
2) lily of the valley blooming in my yard ( the one day we had no rain this week)
3)Em-cat waits patiently for me to come to bed every night-nestles on my pillow
4) books!!!!
5) coffee always!
Introduction to this graphic novel. ❤️
so-soThis dragged on for me. Too much talk: blah blah blah from Lord Peter Wimsey. Harriet Vane, the voice of reason, sighted a dead body by the shore when she was picnicking. The plot that unfolds due to their investigation, although convoluted, did reach a resolution in the end. #readyourkindle
Found this at our HS library today. Excited to try this graphic novel about Hannah Arendt‘s life, her philosophy, her politics, her courage, her warts & all.
Percival Everett won the Pulitzer for fiction. 🧡🧡🧡
#weeklyforecast
Top row: the charming #sundaybuddyread , #nonfiction #hummingbirds #poetry
Bottom row: #DCIBanks #audiobokk #historicalfiction #shelfsweeper #4Elizabeth #historicalfiction
#shelfsweeper #historicalfiction
I know so much about the transcendentalists time & its men from reading & teaching, but not enough about Margaret Fuller, who is neglected in history.This is fiction, But I will see if I can find a biography as well to eventually read as well. Anyone know of one?
Saturday morning porch reading. After a week of clouds & rain, it is heavenly to sip coffee on my porch. #sundaybuddyread
#5JoysFriday
🌸 National Indie Bookstore Day my-My choices are displayed on my couch.
🌸 our magnolia tree lost lots of petals due to rain-still beautiful
🌸 Spirit week at the HS-staff & students had such fun following a daily schedule of creative dress ideas- to match the first letter of my name,I was a kite for day- clipped to my back with a semi-tail! High energy, joyful chaos!
🌸 immersed in poetry thx to #AprilPoetryChallenge
🌸 Em-cat!
#AprilPoetryChallenge #day30 #glitter
“…rocking the glittering coach”.
The Dawn is a poem written by William Butler Yeats which was in a poetry book I own titled, “Poems for Morning”. It is not in Litsy‘s database.
The photo is one I took a recent early morning at dawn.
Lynn I loved reading everyone‘s poems each day this month! Thanks for creating this challenge!
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=7&issue=5&page=1
#AprilPoetryChallenge #day28 #midnight
This is from Watching the Perseids by Jeff Myers. This book of poems chronicles his father‘s treatment for & death due to cancer, as well as his own responses to the aftermath of his father‘s dying & death. It is authentic, raw, heartbreakingly beautiful.
This book was not in our database.
If you take a photo of this post & enlarge you can read the poem.
#HyggehourReadathon
A little tea, some penuche walnut fudge, a book& my kitties makes for a lovely hour. 💕💕💕
#weeklyforecast
Top row: Summer at Tiffany -start #sundaybuddyread; continue with Have His Carcase #HarrietVane; You Are Here-#poetry;
Bottom row: The Bone Garden #WesleyPetersonMystery- finish; The Hummingbirds of Summer #nonfiction -read at least 1 ch; Death in Focus- #audiobook #ElenaStandish-start
pickFinished TMITBS. I thoroughly enjoyed this!Anne Beddingfeld,the protagonist is intelligent,curious,self aware,independent,& seeking adventure & travel.After she witnesses a terrified man fall onto train tracks,she observes the doctor who came to his aid going thru his pockets,then hurrying away.She notices a paper by with a few numbers on it. What does it mean? What terrified the man? Convoluted plot where all is not what it seems. #ChristieCapers
Top row: Just started Man in the Brown Suit today-thoroughly enjoying Anne Beddingfield as she creates her own adventures! A Summer of Hummingbirds, Have His Carcase #ChristieCapers #nonfiction #HarrietVane
Bottom row: took me most of the month to listen to The Queens of Crime, #audiobook #DCIBanks #poetry
A pick me up afternoon coffee & Agatha Christie to read on this dreary, rainy day. #ChristieCapers #April
pickThis #8 in the DCI Banks series is a stunner.
A man is charged with the murder of a wealthy, prominent politician‘s daughter.Prior to his trial,the accused spends months in jail,which he narrates in minute detail.I don‘t want to give anything away, but suffice to say there is a clever multi layered plot,& an in-depth character study. The surprising ending left me cynically wondering if her murder will be avenged or court justice will prevail.
My blind date book: The Alaska Sanders Affair by a Swiss author. I am intrigued! #NationalIndependentBookstoreDay
A morning of visiting my local Indie bookstore,& breakfast at a nearby diner.My friend & I were greeted at the door with a mimosa,games with prizes,buttons, bookmarks & a a blind book date.Purchased 2 books: Bibliophobia, & the tagged book.
The dinner,The Quaker Dinner is 93 years old- a place of nostalgia for me,as it was a destination of choice when my sibs & I were skipping Mass & it rained.The local reservoir‘s was for sunny days.😏
Thanks for the tag @DebinHawaii
#5JoysFriday
1) sunrise
2) immersed in poetry - 💚💚💚 thanks to @wanderinglynn - such a heady experience discovering poems & so enjoying discovering other Littens choices
3) protest on Saturday
4) daffodil- favors at my niece‘s wedding 6 yrs ago-
5) Our magnolia tree in bloom
#AprilPoetryChallenge #day24 #fountains
“from the center of my life
a great fountain, deep blue
shadows on azure seawater.”
pickGideon Oliver is enjoying his Dorchester honeymoon with his new wife Julie when he hears that at 3:30,000-year-old skull was stolen from a nearby British Museum.A body is discovered in the sea & Gideon is asked by the local coroner to use his forensic skills to help identify the body. Meanwhile,Gideon hears from an old college professor that a colleague is directing an archeological dig where this dead man worked.As Gideon‘s & Julie‘s detecting ⬇️
Top Tow: #sundaybuddyread #diaries #ChristieCapers #AgathaChristieClubR3 #foodanslit #Rowanda #readyourkindle #DorothySayers #poetry
Middle Row: #AprilPoetryChallenge
Bottom Row: #bookedintime #ChinaQuingDynastyPost1912+ #nonfiction #hummingbirds #audiobook #QueensofCrime
#bookreport
Top Row: #sundaybuddyread Trying to catch up this week; #Audiobook #QueensofCrime; #nonfiction #hummingbirds #readyourkindle #DorothySayers
Middle Row: #poetry
Bottom Row: finished books #memoir #DCIBanks #GideonOliver #forensicanthropology
Starting my Easter morning with coffee & a book. We are going to brunch at my sister‘s at noon-lots of family coming. Happy Easter! 🐣💛
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